Improvement in stove-legs



I A /AI I UNITED STATES' PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM TANNER, OF NEW BRIGHTON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HIS RIGHT` TO JAMES H. MGOONNELL.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-LEGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,589, dated October 11, 1875; application led July 17,1875'.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TANNER, olf New Brighton, in the county of Beaver andState of Pennsylvania, have invented a cheap and simple means whereby heavy arti cles, such as cooking-stoves, may be readily and easily moved from one place orposition to that oi' another, of which the following is a specification My invention will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection With thel accompanying drawing, wherein- Figure l represents a side view of a cookingstove provided with my invention; Fig. 2, an enlarged rear View of one of the hind legs; Fig. 3, a side elevation ot' the saine.

By way of illustration, I provide a stove,

A, with the usual number of feet; those in the front, or nearest the hearth B, being constructed and attached to the bottom of the stove in the ordinary Way, while those at the back, instead of vheilig set obliquely to the sides of the stove, are so arranged and fixed as to stand parallel thereto and with each other. Each of these hindmost legs, a, is furnished with a small wheel, b, so pivoted therein as that when the forward portion e of the feet rests upon the floor, the said wheels will be slightly elevated or raised above the general plane of the feet, and thus enable the a caster and swinging clutch has heretofore been made; but by my invention the foot and leg are cast in one piece, and the rnecessity of a swinging clutch avoided by setting vthe caster above the base of the foot,` so that it shall only touch the licor when the stove is,-

tilted. It is obvious that a simple and economical device is thereby produced. vI claim- A stove-leg constructed with a rigid foot, c, and provided with acaster, b, located above the base of said foot, as specified, whereby the caster will rest upon the door only when the stove is tilted, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM TANNER. Witnesses: i

JAMES H. PORTE, J osrAE W. ELLs. 

